Editing Terry and the Pirates (section)

{{Short description|Comic strip}}
{{Infobox comic strip
| title       = Terry and the Pirates
| image       = Terry and the Pirates (comic strip).jpg
| caption     = The first ''Terry and the Pirates'' [[Sunday strip|Sunday page]] was launched on December 9, 1934.
| author      = [[Milton Caniff]] (1934–1946)
| current     = [[George Wunder]] (1946–1973)
| url         = 
| status      = Concluded daily and Sunday strip
| first       = 22 October 1934
| last        = 25 February 1973
| altnames    =
| syndicate   = [[Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate]]
| publisher   = 
| genre       = [[Action-adventure comics|Adventure]]
| rating      = 
| preceded by = 
| followed by =
}}

'''''Terry and the Pirates''''' is an [[Action-adventure comics|action-adventure comic strip]] created by cartoonist [[Milton Caniff]], which originally ran from October 22, 1934, to February 25, 1973.<ref name=Holtz/> Captain [[Joseph Medill Patterson|Joseph Patterson]], editor for the [[Tribune Media Services|Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate]], had admired Caniff's work on the children's adventure strip ''[[Dickie Dare]]'' and hired him to create the new adventure strip, providing Caniff with the title and locale.  The [[Dragon Lady (Terry and the Pirates)|Dragon Lady]] leads the evil pirates; conflict with the pirates was diminished in priority when World War II started.<ref>{{Cite book |first =Robert C.  |last =Harvey  |author-link = R.C. Harvey|title =Milton Caniff Conversations  |publisher = [[University Press of Mississippi]] |date = 2002 |pages =12 |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=zr5N7SrDFMkC&q=Milton+Caniff+the+Dragon+Lady&pg=PA20 |isbn = 1-57806-437-6}}</ref>

The strip was read by 31 million newspaper subscribers between 1934 and 1946.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.libraryofamericancomics.com/catalog/series/1016 |title=Terry and the Pirates |publisher=The Library of American Comics |access-date=2012-12-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118022509/http://www.libraryofamericancomics.com/catalog/series/1016 |archive-date=2012-11-18 }}</ref> In 1946, Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the [[National Cartoonists Society]] for his work on ''Terry and the Pirates''.

Writer [[Tom De Haven]] described ''Terry and the Pirates'' as "''the'' great strip of World War II" and "The ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' of comics".<ref>De Haven, Tom. "[https://ew.com/article/1990/10/05/your-guide-classic-comic-strips/ Your guide to classic comic-strips]". ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. October 5, 1990. Retrieved December 2, 2021.</ref>